You can prove it for yourselves." "How ?" demanded several voices.
"Go outside and examine the bushes that grow by the window through which the shot was fired, and look at the ground carefully for foot-tracks.

I am amazed that you didn't think of it yourselves.

You see when one is angry he does not reason and--" The men did not give her opportunity to finish.

They again bolted from the schoolroom.

Their voices and their exclamations were heard under the window a moment later.
"That was fine, J.Elfreda," glowed Grace.
"If they fail to find tracks there I am sorry for Wash, that's all," replied Miss Briggs with a shrug.
"Yer right!" cried a mountaineer, entering the room at that juncture.
"We seen where the critter was standin' when he shot Lum.